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THE Parade, KILTED 5k Date is March 15, 2025 !
NEW THIS YEAR !
Dear Shamrocks for Charity supporters,
WE are excited to announce new participation opportunities for 2025! We will be offering a customized backdrop for an Instagram or Facebook moment for your business,
PLUS- you’ll get St. Patrick’s Day decorations, 100 handmade Shamrocks to sell to patrons for $5.00 AND
30 limited edition customized buttons. This would be $650, but participants can get all this donating $500.
Participants are part of a competition to win the Traveling Shamrock Trophy and be part of the East Dundee Arts Council participation by awarding the BEST DISPLAY OF SHAMROCKS!
Various levels of financial support for your business are encouraged. We will make custom buttons for you for a nominal fee and you’re welcome to sell them or give them to your customers. Send an email with questions to marykay@shamrocksforcharity.com
BUTTONS BUTTONS BUTTONS
Custom buttons are a great way to support our mission to help feed our neighbors, and also showcase your business as a charity partner in this community. You can choose to do 30 buttons for $125.00. These would be limited edition with a display basket! Buttons are $5.00 when charity patrons visit you across town.
Sell all 30 buttons, and you can keep the profit of donate it back!
Our Partnerships
Shamrock postcards displayed in your business gives you a chance to participate and show support to all.
Past Winners of the Traveling Trophy
2024 WINNER AGAIN!
2024 WINNER AGAIN!
2024 WINNER AGAIN!
2024 Winner - TWICE, 2022 and 2024!
2024 WINNER AGAIN!
2024 WINNER AGAIN!
2024 WINNER AGAIN!
2024 WINNER AGAIN!
1st winner of the traveling trophy
1st winner of the traveling trophy
1st winner of the traveling trophy
1st winner of the traveling trophy
1st winner of the traveling trophy
1st winner of the traveling trophy
1st winner of the traveling trophy
Each of these partners collected over $1000 during 2023
Shamrocks for Charity 2025
Over 37K in 6 YEARS!
Since 2018 the Shamrocks for Charity project has collected more than $37.000!
Local establishments sell and display handcrafted postcard signed shamrocks for $5. Year after year our Shamrocks have been recycled and reused.
In 2022 we expanded and sold customized commemorative buttons and suspenders to help raise over $7000. In fact, we are very proud to say every penny collected for the Shamrock’s sale leading up to the Parade has raised more money year after year!
We hope to continue that tradition in 2025 and are happy to involve more businesses to help us.
If you have any questions or suggestions – we want to hear them!
Contact Marykay marykayharvey@gmail.com
Community Action Project!
each sold turns into $5.00 - then given back to the community
happy greetings from people across dundee
Over the years, we have helped countless individuals and families by donating all the money made during the Shamrock for Charity program back to food pantries in our community.
valued donors collect each year
The Brad McFeggan family collects buttons and other charity items throughout the season always topping the biggest donor to Shamrocks to Charity.
2021 Shamrocks For Charity Winner!
A big congratulations and giant thank you to Carol’s Corner!
Another year passed without our annual Parade. This did not deter the bars and restaurants in East Dundee participating in the Shamrocks for Charity.
Bars across town were once again decorated with Shamrocks with patron’s name on them. Fashionable Shamrock for Charity buttons were sold. Many generous folks proudly wore them throughout the season. We were overwhelmed by the generosity of our community as we collected $2100.00!
Carol’s Corner sold hundreds of buttons and Shamrocks!
Shamrocks with customers signatures were plastered on their walls! They collected just under ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS.
2021 Other Rock Stars and Partners in our Mission
Other establishments that participated were, Diamond Jim’s, Rosie O’Hare’s, Black & Grey, River Street Tavern and Cubby Bullfrog.
THANK YOU DIAMOND JIM'S OF EAST DUNDEE
The 2020 Winner of the Shamrock Competition
Diamond Jim's sold an astounding $785.00 worth of Shamrocks to take the trophy for most money raised during the weeks leading up to our cancelled 2020 Parade. We are so grateful! This money was given to local food pantries as the need for help was never greater. Thank you Diamond Jim's!
2019 Shamrocks for Charity Winner!
Chubby Bullfrog Bar & Grill!
Chubby's sold $2200 worth of Shamrock's and holds the top spot for money collecting.
2018 Winner River Street Tavern -The First Year
2018
Our Dundee community supported the idea to advertise St. Patrick's Day greetings on postcards for $5.00. We now have a friendly community competition, and the results are thousands of dollars donated for food pantries and the McNamee Foundation charities. The establishment that raises the most funds gets the Shamrock Trophy for a year.